Radio: After 21 years of broadcasting with Dermot Whelan at his side, Today FM’s Dave Moore is taking his first, tentative steps as a solo host
Of course, there are going to be minor quibbles in the early stages of any show. And Moore has much going in his favour. He has an infectiously upbeat style, which along with his matey manner and dad-at-a-party humour – he retains his trademark “bad jokes” segment, which lives down to its name in suitably groaning fashion – helps create an appealingly easy-going atmosphere.
But Moore’s show is a markedly different beast from the Dermot & Dave franchise. Most obviously, it lacks the zippy chemistry he struck up with Whelan, in which he was more the straight man than the jester. The host jauntily interacts with peers like Dempsey or regular contributors such as Seán Reidy, but so far his programme lacks the mischievous banter he enjoyed with his former co-presenter, who brought a skewed comic sensibility to the equation.
And while the duo staked out a distinctive space for themselves when they arrived at Today FM in 2014, to replace Anton Savage’s talkshow, Moore now finds himself ploughing a more well-worn furrow, as a perma-sunny middle-aged male jock in the mould of his daytime stationmates Dempsey and Ray Foley. Nothing wrong with that, especially on a commercial, pop-heavy operation, but his USP is less obvious. The coming months will tell whether Moore makes the slot his own.
With the political world not yet fully cranked up after the summer, health matters dominate Cooper’s agenda: he has in-depth discussions on psychosomatic illness, Caesarean sections and bariatric surgery. The latter item highlights the host’s ability to guide his audience through specialist subjects, as he examines the number of people who have died after weight-loss procedures abroad, particularly in Turkey.
That Cooper can take complex, potentially problematic material and transform it into a piece of stimulating yet informative radio is a tribute to his clear and deceptively casual style. Calm yet incisive: any surgeon would be proud.
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